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<blockquote data-quote="Old_Red" data-source="post: 3805516" data-attributes="member: 45786"><p>A pound of quarter-inch steel as tough as SK-5 with only 52-54 HRc the Heavy Duty Warthog should serve as a hatchet, camp knife, skiing knife, or meat cleaver, and while it is really too short for the job it would split goat, sheep, and reasonably sized hog carcasses down the spine without having to crawl inside the body cavity to do the job. It should also stand up to being batoned through wood longer than most of us can live to do it.</p><p></p><p>It may be a half-sized descendant of the WW-2 <a href="https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/attachments/edged-weapons/1369443d1578161727-us-corpsman-knife-help-please-p1040004.jpg?s=4b5d0a7051cdf90a13feab6a7b8ec7a9" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201)">Ka-Bar Bolo marked</span></strong> USMC</a> supposedly issued to Navy Corpsmen in the Pacific for cutting brush and working bamboo for litter poles, splints, tent pegs, and general lumber. I picked one up for $8 bucks. I expect the Warthog has a better balance, weight distribution, and grip than their WW-2 Bolo which was too, heavy, too short, had too much weight too near the hand, with a grip that was almost square. I gave it to a knife-making friend, Ralf Faulconer who lusted after the 1/4 slab of steel for a Bowie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old_Red, post: 3805516, member: 45786"] A pound of quarter-inch steel as tough as SK-5 with only 52-54 HRc the Heavy Duty Warthog should serve as a hatchet, camp knife, skiing knife, or meat cleaver, and while it is really too short for the job it would split goat, sheep, and reasonably sized hog carcasses down the spine without having to crawl inside the body cavity to do the job. It should also stand up to being batoned through wood longer than most of us can live to do it. It may be a half-sized descendant of the WW-2 [URL='https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/attachments/edged-weapons/1369443d1578161727-us-corpsman-knife-help-please-p1040004.jpg?s=4b5d0a7051cdf90a13feab6a7b8ec7a9'][B][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]Ka-Bar Bolo marked[/COLOR][/B] USMC[/URL] supposedly issued to Navy Corpsmen in the Pacific for cutting brush and working bamboo for litter poles, splints, tent pegs, and general lumber. I picked one up for $8 bucks. I expect the Warthog has a better balance, weight distribution, and grip than their WW-2 Bolo which was too, heavy, too short, had too much weight too near the hand, with a grip that was almost square. I gave it to a knife-making friend, Ralf Faulconer who lusted after the 1/4 slab of steel for a Bowie. [/QUOTE]
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